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Publication: The Economic Times Mumbai; Date:2012 Jan 05; Section:Technology; Page Number: 4
THE CONCERNS
However, concerns over security, insufficient development of cloudready applications, lack of case studies measuring returns from cloud computing investments and erratic broadband availability have forced CIOs to adopt a slow and steady route to cloud computing. Despite the service network implementation at Hero, Sethi doesnt think cloud computing will see widespread implementation across India Inc. There has been a lot of talk about this, he says. But few companies have taken concrete steps to adopt this technology. HDFC Bank, Indias second-largest private bank, is taking baby-steps to implement cloud computing. Anand Sankararaman, senior vice-president of IT, HDFC Bank, says a few pilot projects have been rolled out internally to gauge how ready the bank is for cloud computing. However, it neither has a private (data hosted exclusively for the bank) or public (data hosted securely with other firms) cloud set-up yet. In financial services, there are several concerns over data security and privacy, which arent fully answered yet, he says. According to experts, security and access to data is the biggest stumbling block to a wider cloud computing implementation across India Inc. Sid Deshpande, senior research analyst with technology consultancy Gartner, says basic tools like email, data back-up and video conferencing are the first tools to be moved to the cloud. There are few cases yet of critical data related to customers or supply chain being cloud based, says Deshpande.
THE MISMATCH
Executives at storage and security giant Symantec are closely watching the evolution of cloud computing to keep their products and services upto-date and according to one of their internal surveys, theres a lot to worry. According to the firms State Of The Cloud Survey, there is a stark mismatch between expectations from cloud computing and the end results.
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According to results from this survey, 85% of those interviewed expected cloud technology to improve their IT agility, but only 57% said that it actually did. Results also fell short in areas of disaster recovery, efficiency and security. CIOs are concerned about access to data and if their IT infrastructure and applications are cloud ready, says Vijay Mhaskar, VP, Information Management Group, Symantec. Others also think that cloud computing has got off to a slow start in India. Under a third of 150 CIOs interviewed by Zinnov, a management consultancy based out of Bangalore, have full-scale implementations in place and just over a fifth have pilot projects underway. While security and data privacy are the top concerns, companies are worried about how long they will spend (and how much money they will invest) in integrating older systems with those built around cloud computing. Nearly 75% of the CIOs we spoke to agreed that cloud computing would be an important part of their strategy, says Praveen Bhadada, director, Zinnov. The biggest issue is one of perception.
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We will have a common pool of technology resources using cloud computing, rather than a dedicated pool to each team AMRITA GANGOTRA Director-IT, Bharti Airtel
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